In the digital age, job flexibility and job mobility have some very serious benefactors in the HR space. The idea that employees are no longer firmly planted entirely to the one company may seem like an act of disloyalty, but all it really suggests is that people have the freedom to decide whether they are the right “fit” or not at their given company.

Finding the right company to work at has some real tangible benefits. Not only does it help you improve your core skillset, being at the right company lets you improve your intangible soft skills.

Here’s how...

As highlighted earlier, the right company can enhance your skillset by providing you with not just the right training, but the freedom to form a holistic view for your technical skills to grow.

I recently had a candidate who worked in DevOps and was looking at branching out to better understand how his business decisions within server architecture had an impact on the bottom line of the company. He was seeking an opportunity that was closer to the operations side. He found his place within an operations-centric role with oversight into the portfolio management that allowed him the ability to oversee not just the server architecture, but the real-time impact to the bottom line through his view of the portfolio budget and strategy.

The right company had let him build out his technical skills and branch out into a different field, to better understand business impacts. Had he been in a more siloed environment, this may not have been possible.

Being around the right people lets you develop your people skills. Office politics and other elements of working life can often taint your view of people, and lead to a stunted understanding of dealing with people. Within organisations that have few open channels of communication, we often find ourselves sticking to only communicating to the people around us.

The right company will often have a sense of community, letting open channels of communication be right at the centre of their cultural identity. A friend once put it best: “open channels of communication are like the veins of the organisation. The older it gets, the less likely they are to be open. Eventually the atrophy sets in.”

The people skills you get at the right company gives you the skills to last you a lifetime.

One often overlooked part of moving to the right company is that you develop your emotional intelligence. The right company feels like family, and this generally translates to a more intimate understanding of each other’s emotional needs. Being able to understand each other on an emotional level allows you to develop an E.Q. (the I.Q. of emotions).

Finding the right company to work for allows you to foster your technical skillset, and in turn your people skills and emotional intelligence. If you’re not at the right company maybe it is time you considered what the right company could be for you.